Forum Home Enhancements - Welcome Panel Template Rewrite

Introduction:

When I first installed Zero Tolerence's Welcome Panel, I found that it had a lot of mistakes on my computer. I set out to make a new template for the hack - and I succeeded. This template is my rewrite of Zero Tolerence's hack.

This Hack Made Possible By Zero Tolerance

Please Remove Zero Tolerance's Plugins When Upgrading from a Previous Version!

Hack Requirements:
This hack has one requirement:

1. vBulletin v3.6.0 or higher. (Confirmed working with vB 3.7.0 RC1)

Installation

Installation is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

1. Upload Files into folders.
2. Install Welcome Panel Product
3. Customize!

Yes, it's that simple.

Feature Lists:
Support for v1.x has been dropped.

v2.2.0

• Displays the number of new posts.
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• The welcome panel is fully phrased.
• Displays a link for new posts.
• There is a link to edit your profile.
• It shows the forum your most active in.
• It displays the percent of your posts compared to the total forum posts.
• It displays the users posts per day count.
• It displays the users number of posts.
• The welcome panel is collapsable if the user doesn't want it there.
• Completely customizable through a setting group with 13 settings.
• Displays users current time (in their time zone)!
• Image or Textual links for New Posts, Daily Posts, and Edit Your Profile.
• Displays the number of new Private Messages.
• Displays the number of new Threads.
• Customizable link for forum rules.
• Customizable to the latest forum announcement (thread only).
• Latest Announcment name is customizable through a setting.
• There is an admin editable section for "useful links", HTML required.
• Link to forum leaders. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to Mark Forums Read. (uses vB default phrase so if you change it to something else the welcome panel also changes)
• Link to the announcement forum.
• The colors now alternate correctly on your welcome panel.
• Show Version
• Welcome Panel Style (Second Style by Da Pro)
• FAQ Entries

v3.0.0

• Displays the number of new posts, threads, and unread private messages.
• Displays the current time (using the user?s time settings)
• It displays the user's avatar & links to the edit avatar page.
• Displays your forum stats:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Members
• Top Poster Statistics
  • Username
  • Profile
  • Amount of Posts
• Fully Phrased
  • Re-Phrased from v2.2.0
• New Posts Link (Image or Text)
• Edit Profile Link (Image or Text)
• Daily Posts (Image or Text)
• The forum the user is most active in.
• How much percentage of the forums total posts does the user own.
• How many ?Posts Per Day? the user has.
• The Panel is Collapsible
• Customizable through 13 settings
  • Revamp Settings from v2.2.0
• Forum Rules link.
• Forums Latest Announcement
  • Pulled Dynamically from specified forum.
• Admin Set ?useful? links ? BBCode allowed!
• Links to Forum Leaders (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Mark Forums Read system (vBulletin?s Phrase)
• Links to the Announcement Forum (optional)
• Alternating Colors
• Welcome Panel Version (optional)
• Welcome Panel Style Improved!
• BBCode Parsing
• Link to vBulletin.org in ACP?s Product Manager
• Version Checking enabled.
• Retrieve Latest Version from database, and display in template.
• Improved Code: With Zero Tolerance's Permission, code rerelease made this a possibility! Improved!
• Optional Plural Checking (New Posts, New Threads) New!
• No Avatar Image: Uses the Image Path setting New!
• Multiple Templates! New!

Conflicts:
Users have reported that there is a conflict with this modification:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122995

Change Log:
v3.0.5: May 16, 2007 - New Features & Improved Code
v3.0.4: March 23, 2007 - Bug Fix - new auto version update.
v3.0.3: Immediately released to replace 3.0.2 to add the correct template.
v3.0.2: Bug Fix, immediately removed from download
v3.0.1: Bug Fix
v3.0.0: Initial Release of 3.0.0

[masons]

fantastic add-on! A top asset to the site and community!

[The Scriblerian]

It's working great.

Small question though, for some reason where it reads "Welcome back (Insert name)!" It has a strange (AVC) after it. Like

"Welcome back The Scriblerian! (AVC)" What is this?

EDIT: Stupid me...I should really read back before I post these kind of things. I believe I saw the answer at the top of the page.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by The Scriblerian

It's working great.

Small question though, for some reason where it reads "Welcome back (Insert name)!" It has a strange (AVC) after it. Like

"Welcome back The Scriblerian! (AVC)" What is this?

EDIT: Stupid me...I should really read back before I post these kind of things. I believe I saw the answer at the top of the page.

That (AVC) would be (Avatar Center) I believe... I added that for testing purposes.

[Philipaclayton]

installed. great hack

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Philipaclayton

installed. great hack

Thanks... The original code was by Zero Tolerance.

[random1]

thank you and thank Zero, this is great!!!! i would rather it be at the bottom of the page but untill i figure out how to do this stuff, i'll be happy i got it running!

thanks agian!

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by random1

thank you and thank Zero, this is great!!!! i would rather it be at the bottom of the page but untill i figure out how to do this stuff, i'll be happy i got it running!

thanks agian!

The plugin replaces $navbar with $navbar fetch_template('forumhome_welcomepanel_' . $style);

so it's hard coded at the top.

[UncoderMom]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

The plugin replaces $navbar with $navbar fetch_template('forumhome_welcomepanel_' . $style);

so it's hard coded at the top.

Is there a way to get rid of that? I have stuff that Id like to put before it and I cant..so Ive been just dealing

But I would love to turn off the hook and do the edit manually!

How could I do this?

[King Kovifor]

Well... UncoderMom, you could modify the plugin to use a variable for the template... I'll whip up the code for you.

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] > 0 && $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] != '' || !$vbulletin->userinfo['userid'])
{
    require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_user.php');
    $vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'] = fetch_avatar_url($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']);

    if (empty($vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build']) || !is_array($vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build']))
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'] = array($vbulletin->options['wp_forumimagelink'] . 'noavatar.gif');
    }

    $vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'] = '<img src="' . $vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'][0] . '"'.iif($vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'][1],$vbulletin->userinfo['avatar_build'][1],'').'border="0" alt="Edit Your Avatar" />';

    $postsin = array();
    $gp      = $db->query_read("SELECT p.threadid, t.forumid FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post p LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread t ON(t.threadid = p.threadid) WHERE p.userid = {$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']}");
    while ($gpb = $db->fetch_array($gp))
    {
        if (!$postsin[$gpb['forumid']])
        {
            $postsin[$gpb['forumid']] = 1;
        }
        else
        {
            $postsin[$gpb['forumid']]++;
        }
    }

    $active = array(0);

    if (is_array($postsin) && is_array($vbulletin->forumcache))
    {
        foreach ($postsin as $forumid => $pi)
        {
            if ($pi > $active[0])
            {
                $active = array($pi, $forumid);
            }
        }
    }

    if (!empty($active[1]))
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['active'] = array($vbulletin->forumcache[$active[1]], $active[0]);
    }
    else
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['active'] = false;
    }

    $exec_totalposts = str_replace(',', '', $totalposts);

    if ($exec_totalposts < 1)
    {
        $exec_totalposts = 1;
    }

    $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] = vb_number_format($vbulletin->userinfo['posts']);
    $jointime = (TIMENOW - $vbulletin->userinfo['joindate']) / 86400;

    if ($jointime < 1)
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['postsperday'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'];
    }
    else
    {
        $vbulletin->userinfo['postsperday'] = vb_number_format(str_replace(',', '', $vbulletin->userinfo['posts']) / $jointime, 2);
    }

    $vbulletin->userinfo['postpercent'] = vb_number_format(((str_replace(',', '', $vbulletin->userinfo['posts']) / $exec_totalposts ) * 100),2);

    $vbulletin->userinfo['newposts'] = $db->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS newposts FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post WHERE dateline >= '{$vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']}' AND visible = '1'");
    $vbulletin->userinfo['newposts'] = vb_number_format($vbulletin->userinfo['newposts']['newposts']);

    $vbulletin->userinfo['newthreads'] = $db->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS newthreads FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread WHERE dateline >= '{$vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']}' AND visible = '1' AND sticky in(0,1)");
    $vbulletin->userinfo['newthreads'] = vb_number_format($vbulletin->userinfo['newthreads']['newthreads']);

    $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']) . ', ' . vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisit']);

    $exec_lastposts = $db->query_first("SELECT COUNT(*) AS lastposts FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post WHERE visible = 1 AND dateline >= ".(TIMENOW - 86400));
    $exec_lastposts = vb_number_format($exec_lastposts['lastposts']);

    $welcomepanel = $vbulletin->templatecache['forumhome_welcomepanel_' . $vbulletin->options['wp_style']];
} 


Try that... Just place $welcomepanel in your template...

[UncoderMom]

Okay.. I did that but its not rendering now... No mater where I place it ..dunno...